Category: Life

Bovril in factual cockup shock horror

I read the following on NUFC.com‘s Coxy’s Corner. Bovril (a meat-based hot drink from the UK) is putting little factoids on the back of current jars. One of them was the following:

“In 1994 enough Bovril drink was made to fill 90 million match day mugs.

In the same year Andy Cole became the highest ever premiership scorer with 34 goals in a season for Manchester United.”

Errr, that’ll be Newcastle United actually. Close, but no steaming hot mug of meaty-smelling beverage for the guy in the research department.

Me being me, I emailed Unilever who make Bovril. Sorry to say I don’t have a copy of that mail as it was on a web form. I am pleasantly surprised, though, to say that they replied:

“Bovril CaseID#38225#

Hello from Bovril

Dear Iain

Thank you for your email.

Well done on spotting our deliberate mistake, I have passed your comments
on to the brand managers concerned.

Kind Regards

Barbara Westwood
Consumer Advisor”

Well done to Unilver for at least making the effort to send me a message back! Let’s see if they recall all the offending jars…

Crocs? Cheap plastic crap, more like

There are these shoes called Crocs and they’re bloody everywhere in Oz. I was dragged into a shoeshop by Mel (her boyfriend spotted some boots there, and pointed them out to her, the fool) and they had roughly four walls full of the ******* things. Bright colours, stupid holes in them and an insane price tag. They even do little badge things that clip into the holes.

I saw a sign detailing how to care for your Crocs. One of the things it mentioned was keeping them out of direct heat as they special compound from which they are made can denature in extreme temperatures. Or something equally long-winded.

What it needed to say was: These things are plastic. Don’t get them hot, you ****.

Has anyone seen an old LP left in a car on a hot day? Well, these things would probably end up just as melty. And they sell them in one of the warmest countries I’ve visited. Good grief.

Why no Mylo?

I want one of these (you have to have Flash enabled or you’ll get a blank screen – shitty website without even a warning or non-Flash message). Given that Sony have no plans to release a keyboard for the PSP and Logic3 have scrapped their plans to launch one, this little thing is ideal for my travels.

Text files, videos, MP3s, loaded with Skype and a web browser with 802.11x wireless and a diddy keyboard. Spot on.

And only available in the US. Why, Sony, why?

And another "**** off" to another spammer

I just got the following from some muppet via the contact link on this blog:

‘My name is Camila Parker.
I saw your blog and I found it very interesting.
So, what do you think about our collaboration?
I believe it would be great to exchange blogs!
My blog is: http://cigarettesxxxxxxxxx.blog.com
Wait for your reply.
Good day
Camila Parker.’

Obviously, I’ve deleted part of the blog name. Suffice to say it was a shitload of pro-smoking ***** about how cool smoking is with links to places you could buy cigars and fags from. Oh, and the English is crap.

*sigh*

Camila Parker probably doesn’t exist. The email address listed most likely will bounce or sign me up to (more) spam. But on the off-chance you’re looking for a link to your blog, Ms Parker, don’t bother.

**** off.